CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0752

7.2 HIGH Published 2007-05-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-05-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The PPP daemon (pppd) in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 checks ownership of the stdin file descriptor to determine if the invoker has sufficient privileges, which allows local users to load arbitrary plugins and gain root privileges by bypassing this check.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x 10.4.8 • apple mac os x server 10.4.8

References